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Re: Klingon WOTD: meH (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Apr 8 10:22:50 2008
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:19:31 -0500
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, April 8, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: meH
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: bridge (of a ship)
Used in canon:
meH, naDev qaS wanI' ramqu'
Bridge, nothing happening here. ST3
loSmaH jav vI' Soch loS 'uj 'ab meH
Bridge Height: 16.28 M. KBoP
Cultural notes:
KGT 173: In particular, Clipped Klingon is heard in situations where quick
communication is desirable and certain phrases are expected to be heard,
such as on the bridge of a ship during a battle.
KGT 183: A ritual of a less majestic sort occurs on a Klingon vessel when
a new set of officers takes over and a mission is about to begin. With the
bridge crew assembled but the captain not yet present, the first officer
states his or her name and then says...
Trek trivia:
Romulans refer to their bridge as "Control Central." (TOS "The Enterprise
Incident")
Related nouns:
{yaH} "duty station", {Qu' vu'wI' yaH} "Mission Ops"
Cf. also {SeHyaH nIv} "[Fleet?] Operations Command" (the Klingon equivalent
to Starfleet Command?):
HoD, yo' SeHyaH nIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH
Captain, we are receiving a priority message from Operations Command.
(ST5 notes)
Would {SeHyaH} mean "command center, operations, headquarters"?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
